As I stand here listening to my washing machine, which sounds like it is on the verge of total collapse with a fairly constant kush-kush-kush sound and takes two hours to clean clothes, I realize that I have a wonderful life . I very much enjoy whatever it is I happen to doing at the moment… Being Saturday that generally involves attempting some new recipe. If you rememebr, a few weeks ago, I attempted porridge (not well) and succeeded a few weeks after. Today the great cooking escapade was tortillas.
For me, one of the most difficult parts of living practically in the desert of southern Africa has been food. It isn’t that I don’t like the food, just that I miss Tex-Mex. It is incredibly challenging to find jalepeños, chilis or anything spicy with a few expections – curry and peri-peri which comes in a TON of fun flavors: regular, hot, or supa (Nando’s is great ! Anyhow, no Tex-Mex flavors or spices or packaged foods… even South Africa has a tortilla mix from El Paso, but Botswana? Nope… So, this morning I woke up and thought, “I’d like a tortilla!” So, I made them. Amazingly enough, they turned out pretty well and were much easier than I expected. I made half a batch according to recipe, which yielded 5 whole tortilla (one of which was super tiny). It was great! I’ll have to make more next time.
Next weekend I’m sure it will be a whole other adventure in cooking. Maybe I’ll try to make refried beans or convince someone to teach me how to make papa and seswaa… Yum! I highly recommend it to everyone, but it’s not really easy to explain – basically it is boiled beef and maize meal. Well, now I’m off to do something else… maybe I’ll hadwash my clothes again, I’m sure it would be faster than the washing machine.
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